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Pigment, a French startup that makes AI-powered software to help businesses forecast finances, spin up slide decks, and more, raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
6 hours ago France Startup AI

AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside existing Intel and AMD chips (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago Intel Startup AI Nvidia AMD

AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

Anthropic report on how AI is changing employment at the startup: decline of entry-level technical hiring, productivity boom across departments, and more (www.anthropic.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Source: Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022 (www.thetimes.com)
4 days ago Startup

AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR (www.axios.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago France Europe Startup AI Nvidia

Booking Holdings launches Vayo, a travel startup that uses AI agents to track booking confirmations, price drops, and more, with a planned $100M investment (www.geekwire.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

US defense companies and startups have signed at least 13 deals with Taiwanese hardware companies since September 2025 to build a secure drone tech supply chain (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Taiwan Startup Drone

Disney Offers $20 Million For Character.AI Assets As Startup Files For Bankruptcy (yro.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Startup AI Asset

Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI JPMorgan Goldman

Amazon In Talks To Buy AI Startup Decart For Around $7 Billion (hardware.slashdot.org)
8 days ago Amazon Startup AI

Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Robot

An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Interview Startup AI Silver

Anchorage Digital buys B2B payments automation startup Routable for an undisclosed sum; Anchorage CEO calls it its largest acquisition by team size and revenue (www.axios.com)
9 days ago Startup

Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Amazon Startup AI

Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute (www.theinformation.com)
10 days ago Startup

AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say (yro.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Nuvacore, a six-month-old Sequoia-backed chip startup that's designing a new central processor for data centers, is raising funds at a ~$2.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago Startup

A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (www.axios.com)
11 days ago Startup

Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M seed and a $50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots (fortune.com)
11 days ago Startup AI Robot Intelligence

The UK plans to curb non-compete rules that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn complaints from startups (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Startup

Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago Startup AI Zuckerberg

AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Muse, Instinct, Claude, Grokbot, and ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

European venture funding rose 77% YoY to $25B in Q3, the region's strongest funding quarter in four years, representing 16% of global VC and led by AI startups (news.crunchbase.com)
12 days ago Europe Startup AI

AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks (fortune.com)
12 days ago Retail Startup AI

Quantum startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.5B after raising a $300M Series A in July, taking its total funding to $775M (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Startup Quantum

UK-based quantum computing startup Universal Quantum raised a $100M+ Series A led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures to expand research hubs in Germany and Singapore (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Germany Startup Singapore Quantum

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Google Startup AI

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